Jonah Goldberg describes Trump's technique in answering questions:
If you listen to Trump’s answers to almost any question about how he will fix a problem, he uses up the first 95 percent of his time explaining, re-explaining and demagoguing about how bad the problem is. (That is, if he’s not talking about polls.) Then in the last few seconds, he says we’ll fix the problem by being really smart or by winning or by hiring the best people. In other words, he has no idea how to fix it.
Goldberg despairs over the anti-anti-Trump conservatives for whom he has had great esteem in the past (e.g. Newt Gingrich, Bill Bennett) but who now make excuses for Trump saying he may be okay after all. (Read the whole piece)
Other links:
** The 202 People, Places and Things Donald Trump has insulted on Twitter: A Complete List
** Liberty University newspaper interviews Chancellor Falwell on his personal endorsement of Donald Trump. (Falwell was wined and dined)
** Michael Signer - Here's what demagogues like Trump do to their countries when they take power: "The Donald has all the traits of his political forebears, and he'll present all the same dangers."
** On evangelical support of Trump:
Stepen Prothero: He [Trump] has not hypnotized evangelicals into forgetting the foundations of their faith. He is simply revealing the fact that their faith is now more political than theological. The white evangelicals who flock to his rallies like their parents once did to Billy Graham revivals know that he lives a life comically at odds with teachings of the Bible and the examples of the saints. But his political theology resonates powerfully with their narrative of decline and revival. Classically that narrative ran from sin in the Garden of Eden to redemption on the cross. Today it takes place in an America that has fallen from its founding glory yet will, by God’s grace and Trump’s hand, be made great again.
On days like Super Tuesday, it is hard to remember that there are still born-again Christians who take their marching orders from the Bible rather than from the Republican platform. . .